.An almost audible sensation of palpable
panic swept through the ranks of truth
seekers as word spread about my recent
series in AMERICAN FREE PRESS confronting,
dissecting and laying to rest some myths,
phony documents and fraudulent “quotations” that
are iconic to many patriots. Some folks got angry
because the truth contradicted popular long-cherished
rumors and widely circulated downright lies
people have come to accept as fact.One reader threatened to cancel her subscription
when she read that, in its next issue, AFP
would demolish the widely believed (though false)
stories that the Rockefellers, Rothschilds and
Bushes joined together to bring Hitler to power.
This lady didn’t even wait to read the article. So
devoted to the myths, she couldn’t bear the
thought of them being disproven.Another reader sent an angry email in response
to that article asking, “How could you defend the
Bushes?” when the article in AFP — long a foremost
critic of the Bush dynasty — did not defend
those gangsters but simply pointed out that so-called “evidence” purporting to “prove” they financed
Hitler was just not true.The reaction to AFP’s series demonstrates — too clearly — that the Internet has become a potentially
dangerous “echo chamber” in which patriots talk
to each other, often relying on unknown sources
of information to supply what is often unreliable,
even deliberately forged data to debate and disseminate.What often happens is that agents of the power
elite — those forces who control the media, the
Federal Reserve monopoly and the international
New World Order system — pose as “patriots,” say
many of the “right things” and then proceed to
spread their nonsense among patriots.But because the enemy agents seem trustworthy —
and since their “scoops” aren’t coming (at
least not openly) from the garbage men of the
rightly hated establishment media — real patriots
tend to put their faith in the disinformation and unwittingly
pass it on to others.The consequence of this type of interaction, in
what amounts to a virtual closed society, is that insidious
elements take advantage of this circling-of-the-wagons by truth seekers and infiltrate Judas
Goats and agents provocateurs into the midst of
the good people to advance their own evil (although
sometimes murky) agendas. Thus, patriots
are misdirected, misused and set up for a fall. One author has written of how one infamous
cult shapes the worldview of its own members:

The totalist paradigm begins with shutting off
the individual’s access to the outside world, so
that his perceptions of reality can be manipulated
without interference. The goal at this stage is to
provoke expectable patterns of behavior that will
appear to arise spontaneously. . . . Those who are
being manipulated may come to endorse the goals
and means of the group . . . or simply abandon the
will to resist. In either case, the individual is
robbed of the chance for independent action or
self-expression.

Bottom line: Patriots need to keep their eyes
and minds open and not be drawn into a whirlpool
of propaganda and disinformation — a descent into
a maelstrom of frenzied rumors and hysterical and
reckless behavior leading to public repudiation,
even disaster. Next week: While patriots are looking in one direction,
the real action — the real danger — lies elsewhere.